The migrant literature is being written by a series of authors who come from the diverse places, but almost all of them share one single problem, that is, the issue
of language. Many of these writers land in the countries with totally different linguistic milieu and, resultantly, they find themselves as ‘dumb’ as their literary voices are not heard in their
immediate surroundings. Physically, they are in their newly-adopted lands, but for their readership they are compelled to look back towards the forsaken countries. The nature and intensity of
this trauma, nevertheless, vary in relation to the age of the writer at the time of his/her migration or/and the linguistic-cultural proximity/remoteness between the places of origin and arrival.
A writer, as an empirical being, learns language of the host country; that is an integral part of his/her integration process, but to start creative writings
in the new language is far from being easy: it is often full of conflicts, made difficult by the fear that the new language could supplant the mother language and, even, offend it. Getting to
learn a language deeply enough to use for literary purposes is indeed an enormously challenging task.

The relationship of the language of the host country and that of the migrant writer’s remains, in most of the cases, that of respectively centre and periphery, and
in that configuration the former is always omnipresent while the later almost unnoticed, unheard. This set-up renders the migrant writer an outsider who is
denied belonging to the literature of the host country. In this context, there is a dire need of a rapprochement and a dialogue between the two bodies of literature; of the host country and the
migrant writers.

The idea of publishing a bilingual magazine especially in a country like Austria, that has more than one official language, can hardly be overestimated. Such a move
is more relevant in an era when Austria, along with other European countries, is having tremendous influx of refugees - among them new writers too.